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The Global StartUp Ecosystem

Paul Hobcraft

The authors JF Gauthier, Marc Penzel and Max Marmer are all founders of Startup Genome and have pulled together an impressive project team to provide this great, insightful report with a whole host of Ecosystem Partners around the globe- thanks from this reader. There is a clear lifecycle to the development of startup ecosystems.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

As opposed to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking is not necessarily bound to entrepreneurs (to be); it is an essential skill for ‘strengthening human capital, employability and competitiveness’ (Bacigalupo et al., Entrepreneurship. That brings us to entrepreneurial thinking. Behind deep cognitive structures are deep beliefs.”

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The Founder, Innovation On Film

Gregg Fraley

The Founder , starring Michael Keaton as McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc , is the best film about innovation since Moneyball in 2011. There are scenes about about invention, development, prototyping, and completion. Use this movie with innovation teams, or students. Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc in The Founder.

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Four Things to Get Right When Starting a Company

Harvard Business Review

Product and business models are evolutionary by nature, but we see four things a young company must get right: The founding team. Moving forward without a co-founder is risky and moving on with a bad co-founder almost unimaginably costly. It's also important to cultivate a balanced team from the start. The core values.

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How to Pick a Co-Founder

Harvard Business Review

Not a bad idea, of course. Diversity on your founding team will give you strength. If you're a product guru, maybe you need a business development or sales-oriented leader to get your vision to market. There are bad days, bad moments, bad deals, bad quarters, etc. How do you pick the right person?

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Managing and Motivating Employees in Their Twenties

Harvard Business Review

Publicly reward junior team members who are doing a great job. It will show that you invite and insist on truth-telling and on hearing bad news. When you hear this kind of answer, consider it a great learning for yourself: something has remained unexplained for the team. No brainer, right? Give them personal attention.

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New Research: If You Want To Scale Impact, Put Financial Results First

Harvard Business Review

Their fast-growing companies work in almost every industry, from online retail to manufacturing to professional services, and together they have created more than 200,000 jobs and generated revenues of more than $5B in 2011. Our team set out to further explore this question by looking at the 50+ social enterprise companies in our network.